Selection of region-specific brand pages based on location information of social networking system users

• US 10,373,202 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Issued: 08/06/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kanter, Jeffrey Andrew, Lindamood, Jack William
• Primary Examiner(s): Bates, Kevin T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Ronak
• Application Number:
  US13/705,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156749A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,435 Days
• Field of Search: 709204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

A social networking system generates a region-specific brand page for presentation to a requesting a brand paged based on location information associated with the user. The region-specific brand page includes data about the brand and aggregated data about users'"'"' actions associated with the brand in the social networking system and is presented in a format determined in part by the location information associated with the user. Additionally, the region-specific brand page may include data describing interactions with the brand by users connected to the user viewing the brand page, even if the connected users are associated with location information associated with a different geographic region than the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing, in a social networking system, a plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with an entity, each region-specific brand page associated with location information identifying a geographic region in which the region-specific brand page is presented and each region-specific brand page including content associated with the entity and accessible by users of the social networking system;

receiving, by the social networking system, a request from a viewing user for a brand page associated with the entity and connected to the plurality of region-specific brand pages;

identifying, by the social networking system, location information stored by the social networking system that is associated with the viewing user;

selecting, by the social networking system from the plurality of region-specific brand pages, a region-specific brand page based on the request and the location information associated with the viewing user;

retrieving data for inclusion in the selected region-specific brand page describing interactions between users and one or more objects in the social networking system associated with the entity, wherein;

the data includes aggregated data from the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity; and

the interactions described by the aggregated data include an interaction by a user connected by the social networking system to the viewing user with another region-specific brand page of the plurality of region-specific brand pages, the user being associated with different location information from the location information associated with the viewing user; and

presenting the selected region-specific brand page including the retrieved data to the viewing user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactions are between users connected to the viewing user and the one or more objects and the interactions are selected from a group consisting of:

expressing a preference for an object associated with the entity, checking-in to a location associated with the entity, sharing content associated with the entity, posting a content associated with the user to the social networking system, posting a photograph associated with the entity, and any combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the region-specific brand page based on the location information associated with the viewing user comprises selecting the region-specific brand page associated with location information matching the location information associated with the viewing user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the region-specific brand page based on the location information associated with the viewing user comprises:

selecting a region-specific brand page associated with location information within a threshold distance of the location information associated with the viewing user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected region-specific brand page includes content presented in a language associated with a geographic region including the location information associated with the selected region-specific brand page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected region-specific brand page includes content associated with a geographic region including the location information associated with the selected region-specific brand page.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving one or more actions associated with the viewing user by the social networking system; and

determining the location information associated with the viewing user based on the retrieved one or more actions.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more actions associated with the viewing user are selected from a group consisting of:

checking-into a location, tagging a location in a photograph, tagging a location in content provided to the social networking system, and any combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the determined location information identifies a location associated with the viewing user, and wherein selecting the region-specific brand page comprises:

selecting the region-specific brand page from the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity based on the geographic region associated with the selected region-specific brand page including the location associated with the viewing user.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving data for inclusion comprises:

identifying, from the plurality of region-specific brand pages, a subset of region-specific brand pages associated with location information that is within a threshold distance of location information associated with the selected region-specific brand page;

identifying, for each region-specific brand page from the subset of region-specific brand pages, user interactions associated with the region-specific brand page; and

generating the data for inclusion in the selected region-specific brand page based on the identified interactions.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieved data describes interactions between users that are similar to the viewing user and the selected region-specific brand page.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information associated with the viewing user is included in a user profile of the viewing user with the social networking system.

9. A method comprising:

storing, in a social networking system, a plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with an entity, each region-specific brand page associated with location information identifying a geographic region in which the region-specific brand page is presented and each region-specific brand page including content associated with the entity and accessible by users of the social networking system;

storing interactions between users of the social networking system and one or more of the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity;

receiving, by the social networking system, a request from a viewing user for a brand page associated with the entity and connected to the plurality of region-specific brand pages;

identifying, by the social networking system, location information stored by the social networking system that is associated with the viewing user;

selecting, by the social networking system, from the plurality of region-specific brand pages, a region-specific brand page based on the request and the location information associated with the viewing user;

generating data for inclusion in the selected region-specific brand page based on the stored interactions between the users of the social networking system and one or more of the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity wherein;

the data includes aggregated data from the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity; and

the aggregated data describes an interaction by a user connected by the social networking system to the viewing user with another region-specific brand page of the plurality of region-specific brand pages, the user being associated with different location information from the location information associated with the viewing user; and

presenting the selected region-specific brand page including the generating data to the viewing user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the data for inclusion in the selected region-specific brand page based on the stored interactions between the users of the social networking system and one or more of the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity comprises a total number of check-ins associated with the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the data for inclusion in the selected region-specific brand page based on the stored interactions between the users of the social networking system and one or more of the plurality of region-specific brand pages associated with the entity comprises a total number of users of the social networking system expressing a preference for at least one of the plurality of region-specific brand pages.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein selecting the region-specific brand page based on the location information associated with the viewing user comprises:

selecting a region-specific brand page associated with location information matching the location information associated with the viewing user.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein selecting the region-specific brand page based on the location information associated with the viewing user comprises:

selecting a region-specific brand page associated with location information within a threshold distance of the location information associated with the viewing user.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

retrieving one or more actions associated with the viewing user by the social networking system; and

determining the location information associated with the viewing user based on the retrieved one or more actions.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more of the plurality of region-specific brand pages are region-specific brand pages having geographic regions within a threshold distance of the geographic region associated with the selected region-specific brand page.